It's a bit like "How to lie with Statistics" - it seems to be possible that any word we look at had a previous life, so you can always argue on favour of almost any word on those grounds. All you need is a big enough dictionary!
Who ever says jubilating these days. Surely it comes from the grand tradition of Colemanballs - I believe that Dan Quayle has a similar reputation in America.
Here's a selecton (some from the Private Eye website - they offer £10 for any you send in):
'There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class'
(David Coleman at The Montreal Olympics)[I think that this is the original Colemanball]
'And for those of you who watched the last programme (Fanny and Johnny Craddock), I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's' (David Coleman at the start of Match of The Day)
'To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.'
(Ruud Gullit)
"Sometimes in football you have to score goals."
THIERRY HENRY, Sky Sports
(Roger Main)
"Quinn, for the umpteenth time, got his first goal of the current campaign."
BRIAN MOORE, BBC Match of the Day
(Ian Walton)
"Michael Vaughan has a long history in the game ahead of him."
MARK NICHOLAS, Channel 4
(Anna Lomax)
"The Germans only have one player under twenty-two and he's twenty-three."
KEVIN KEEGAN, BBC News
(Steve Speight)
For more - check out this site:
http://www.siliconglen.com/jokes/colemanballs.html
